Proverbs 19:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

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  • Prov 16:1 : 1 The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
  • Isa 14:24 : 24 The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect. 11 The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.
  • Isa 14:26-27 : 26 This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations. 27 For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
  • Isa 46:10 : 10 Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
  • Acts 5:38-39 : 38 And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing: 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
  • Gen 37:19-20 : 19 Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer. 20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.
  • Gen 45:4-8 : 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt. 5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives. 6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain. 7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
  • Dan 11:24-25 : 24 Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time. 25 And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;
  • Matt 26:4-5 : 4 And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death. 5 But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead. 64 Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, 28 To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel: 7 This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 16:9
    79%

    9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

  • Ps 33:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

    11 The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

  • Prov 19:20
    77%

    20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

  • Prov 15:22
    76%

    22 Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.

  • Prov 21:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

    2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Prov 21:29-31
    3 verses
    76%

    29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

    30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

    31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

    2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

    3 Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

  • Prov 20:5
    75%

    5 The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

  • Prov 29:26
    74%

    26 The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

  • Prov 20:18
    73%

    18 Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

  • Prov 19:22
    73%

    22 The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.

  • Prov 5:21
    73%

    21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • Prov 19:3
    72%

    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Prov 20:24
    71%

    24 A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

  • Prov 12:20
    71%

    20 Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

  • Prov 24:6
    71%

    6 For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.

  • Prov 12:5
    70%

    5 The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

  • Prov 14:12
    70%

    12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 12:2
    70%

    2 A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

  • Prov 12:15
    70%

    15 The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

  • Prov 23:19
    70%

    19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Nah 1:11
    70%

    11 One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

  • Prov 16:33
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    33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • Prov 3:5
    70%

    5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

  • Jer 18:11-12
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    11 Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

    12 But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.

  • Isa 28:29
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    29 This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

  • Jer 10:23
    69%

    23 O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

  • Jer 17:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

    10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

  • Prov 17:3
    69%

    3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Ps 94:11
    69%

    11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

  • Prov 11:14
    69%

    14 When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.

  • Job 22:18
    69%

    18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

  • Prov 16:25
    69%

    25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Jer 32:19
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    19 Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:

  • Job 23:13
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    13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

  • Ps 37:23
    69%

    23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

  • Isa 8:10
    68%

    10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

  • Prov 28:26
    68%

    26 He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

  • Job 18:7
    68%

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Jer 17:5
    68%

    5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 3:20
    68%

    20 And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.